AMHERST, MA - The 11th-ranked Amherst College men’s basketball team placed 16 players in the scoring column, led by 13-point outings from junior guard John Bedford (Ridgewood, NJ) and senior forward Andrew Schiel (Wayne, PA), en route to a season-opening 107-55 blowout win over visiting Medgar Evers College in the first round of the Fourth-Annual Ken Wright ’52 Memorial Invitational Tournament on Friday night.

Vassar College also won its first-round matchup against Curry College, 77-57, and will meet Amherst in the championship game Saturday at 3 p.m.

The host Jeffs came out of the gates a bit sluggish, leading only 8-6 just under four minutes into the game, until senior guard Russell Lee (Lorton, VA) nailed one of 14 Amherst three-pointers to spark a 16-0 run from which Medgar Evers would never recover.

The second half brought much of the same as Amherst opened with a 20-2 flurry, ignited once again by a Lee trifecta, and the Jeffs led by as many as 54 points despite emptying their bench in both halves. Amherst forced Medgar Evers into a whopping 24 turnovers while shooting 56.5% (39-for-69) overall and 53.8% (14-for-26) from three-point land.